New Geographies of Feminist Art
New Geographies of Feminist Art
This collaboration proposes writing a global history of feminist art that considers the complex and contingent histories of South-South connections and uses methods drawn from anthropology, art history, and feminist studies.
Our cross-disciplinary collaboration challenges the commonplace of folding non-Western artists and art practices into a preexisting Western narrative of feminist art by examining feminist trajectories and networks to emerge from metropolitan centers in the South, such as Mumbai and Shanghai, which were distinctive if not disjunct from their counterparts in the West.
Project Goals
- To generate new cross-disciplinary methodologies, courses, and publications;
- To lead to an academic conference, museum exhibition, and digital archive; and
- To establish the University of Washington at the forefront of transnational feminist studies of contemporary art and culture.
New Geographies of Feminist Art: China, Asia, and the World - Conference Announcement
November 15-17, 2012
University of Washington
With panels and roundtables featuring scholars, artists, and curators, this international conference reconsiders the practice, circulation, and cross-cultural significance of feminist art from Asia.
Keynote speaker: Shu-mei Shih (Comparative Literature, Asian Languages & Cultures, and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)
Sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange; the University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences; the Henry Art Gallery; Seattle Art Museum; and the Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas of the Seattle Art Museum.
